Chapter 124 [124] It is said that the countdown is second
The rocket takes off.
An Ju has not been to the universe for a long time.
When the ascending rocket passed through the atmosphere and left the blue earth, An Jue saw the space station still operating in space.
"An Xun, what is the game between you and the man behind the scenes?"
The black-haired boy looked sideways, looked at the space station through the glass window, and said calmly: "Probably, the dominance of the race."
"Race?" An Jue looked back at him, frowning slightly, "What do you mean?"
An Xun said: "Our racial group needs a ruler, and it and I are fighting for it."
The young man looked at the transparent window of the rocket cabin. When the scenery outside the window completely changed from the blue sky and white clouds to the endless sea of stars in the vast universe, the impact of the rocket slowed down.
An Jue didn't particularly understand what he said. He just got some information from the superficial words, "It means that you rely on the final win or loss of this game to determine who is the final king of your race?"
She suddenly asked: "What is the name of this game you are playing?"
"As a player, Xiaoji, it's better to forget that we are playing a game. This way it is more authentic and more interesting, isn't it?" the girl said.
So even if An Xun and the people behind the scenes regard living humans on a planet as NPCs in the game, she has no position to condemn and resent them.
"..." The young man asked: "How did your important person die?"
The long passage corridor, with incandescent lamps lighting up around it, lights everything up a snow-white color.
An Ju pursed his lips slightly and clenched his hands into fists.
Upon hearing this, An Ju immediately refused: "That's not possible! What if I accidentally kill you??"
"If they are so powerful, why can they be used by you?"
An Jue seemed to be back in this white mirror space.
The girl's eyes were full of seriousness, as if she was very obsessed with the answer she gave. However, An Xun suddenly looked away and continued to look at the sea of stars outside the window. There was no emotion in her voice, like a bland and tasteless clear pool, without waves or waves:
"It has no name. Anyway, it is destined to be forgotten in the endless time of the universe, from birth to destruction."
So the game starts.
An Jue had a memory of the death of the princess in her mind. She blamed it on the "game background", but the real feelings at that time were so painful that it made people want to die.
——It’s extremely empty here.
It seemed that the person behind the scenes wanted to lure her there.
She turned back and was about to ask An Xun if he needed this kind of clothing, but she saw that the boy walked out without any discomfort in the space environment.
What she wants to know in her heart may be answered in the next second.
At this moment, An Ju seemed to have the answer.
An Jue could never forget it.
Soon, the spacecraft docked with the space station, and the hatch was opened. The moment the door opened, Ares was attached to An's whole body, forming a dark and tight-fitting space suit.
An Jue looked into her eyes, "Passed the customs clearance?"
An Jue also smiled, squinting his eyes slightly, the seriousness and coldness in his eyes faded, and he spread his hands and joked: "I'm just curious. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe I, an alien, didn't actually come to another planet or another world, but
I accidentally got involved in your game system!"
The girl smiled distressedly and said, "I can't help it. As soon as I see Xiaojue, I can't help but want to see you, and I can't bear to take action against you."
That face was familiar and good-looking, with red lipstick, upturned eyelashes and unforgettable pale yellow eyes, everything was the same as before.
"I see." An Xun said lightly, "It can also survive in the universe?"
"Really? That's good -" An said with a smile: "So, what is the name of this game?"
"Have you remembered?" the girl asked with a smile.
Suddenly something seemed to be activated on both sides of the vertical passage. The walls peeled off, and a long laser line suddenly rushed towards the two of them!
An wondered, wouldn't it be the same as Henry's ending, where everything was just a dream, and even after waking up for a long time, I was still very moved?
After the sweet voice ended, she suddenly remembered that she had indeed told the princess that if she wanted an interesting game, it would be best if two people could participate together.
The girl sighed softly: "You are considered to have been killed by me. I killed an important person with my own hands. This retribution is really cruel."
"..."
She looked at the girl sitting in the center quietly, waiting for her first words after meeting her.
The princess nodded: "Yes, I am still alive, Xiaojie, are you happy?"
"Living bodies and humans are two-way choices. They provide us with combat power, and we provide them with parasitic consciousness, extend their lifespan, and continuously deliver energy."
Tortured by guilt and unable to sleep at night, I still continued to give up those people for myself in the subsequent choices.
She was ruthless and cold-blooded. People before her death often cursed her like this in their dreams.
As the door opened, the scene inside the door was all exposed to An Ju's field of vision.
An Ju immediately jumped up and dodged, and An Xun also turned over to avoid the blow.
"Almost." An Xun said lightly.
A smile that was familiar to An Jue was on her sweet face. She stretched out her hand to gently take An Jue's arm and said with a smile: "It's a game between us. You as a human being and I as the boss design the plot."
"Monsters" is very similar to "The Wild World", and you said you also wanted to try it out, so we played together."
That outfit was worn by the princess on the day she got married and left for the Federation.
An Xun's heart is very small. She only has Ares and the princess. She doesn't care about the empire or the people. This is the same as An Xun. Except for those she cares about, the life and death of others have nothing to do with her. But the only difference is that she will
Feeling guilty towards those who had the ability to save but chose to give up.
The girl smiled sweetly and her eyes fell on An Jue, seemingly with endless attachment and love - "You are finally here, Xiao Jue."
[...Is this really true??] Ares said in disbelief: [The person behind the scenes, is she really like this?!]
Although it is hard to believe, the fact is before our eyes.
An Xun's eyes darkened, and he stretched out his hand to grab the floor, but in the next second, his palm was pierced by spikes sprayed from the ground!
"An Xun!" An Xun rushed to pull him, but the rising wall in front of them directly separated the two of them.
An's body was covered with jet-black armor, and the joints of the armor glowed with ice-blue light.
She is a person from another world, and this is not where she belongs from beginning to end.
The princess smiled and said: "I will set the background of the game for you and modify your memory so that you will not know that the boss is me!"
"No! As a player, I have already passed the level, but you haven't, so I will be the boss!" the princess said with a smile.
Even though he had prepared himself mentally, the moment he saw this scene, An Jue's legs still felt as if they had been filled with lead, and they were so heavy that it was difficult to lift his steps.
"Yes," the girl stood up and walked towards An Jue step by step, "I still can't help it, I want to go straight to you."
In order to survive, she was ruthless, hypocritical and indifferent.
"On the day I sent her off to get married, the fleet encountered an invasion by zerg. It was a race from another galaxy. The zerg had intelligence, technology, and a body stronger than humans. I originally thought their purpose was the princess.
So I changed the route of the princess's spacecraft, and exchanged my identity with hers, so that I could lead her away, but I didn't expect that their purpose was actually me."
The amber-yellow pupils reflected the nebula outside, and the stars in the sky shimmered with light.
Something is very wrong with this space station!!
"An Xun! An Xun!" She called loudly to the boy on the other side of the wall, but did not receive any response. It was as if the two of them were in different worlds in an instant.
*
One road goes all the way to the end.
An scoffed and suddenly raised his eyes to look at the black-haired boy in front of him!
His eyes quietly reflected the girl's slightly startled expression, and he continued: "I don't care about my feelings for human beings. They have nothing to do with me. I only care about you."
Behind the scenes, Pandora, Aket, and almost the same setting and monsters as "The Wild World".
This wasn't the end yet. When the boy landed, the floor beneath his feet suddenly cracked!
*
The final battle is not quite the same as imagined.
But it's true and cruel.
Because - not to mention monsters, it seems that no two specific beings can be seen in the entire space station.
Familiar names and familiar words.
Ares:[……]
An Ju: "..."
The young man seemed to have noticed the girl's mood, but he had no intention of explaining it. After a few seconds of silence, he suddenly asked: "Speaking of which, what kind of creature is your partner Ares?"
The young man paused slightly, "Brain?"
However, An Ju was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the universe and the sea of stars at this moment.
——You are the real alien!!
That decision resulted in the death of the princess. If he had not exchanged identities with her at that time, everything might have been different.
But even so, An Jue felt a little unhappy for no reason.
An Tie smiled: "Every race has its own weaknesses, brothers, no matter how strong they are, they may need to rely on energy and brains to survive."
"Abandoning humanity will make you feel guilty, and not being able to see the person behind the scenes will make all your efforts along the way in vain. But compared to the faint guilt, not being able to figure everything out will make you more painful. In fact, in the end, I don't need to do anything.
, your heart is also more inclined to find out the truth, but I want to reduce the guilt in your heart towards mankind, so I push you manually so that you can turn all the guilt into resentment and vent it on me."
The girl said: "The race of Ares lives on a planet with a very harsh environment and relies on absorbing the mineral energy of that planet to survive. However, the resources of the planet are too poor and there is no machinery. For them, it is just puddles of sticky black water.
From birth, it must be attached to gold, copper, iron ore and other ores, like a parasite from birth to death. Before the planet is discovered by the interstellar empire, its lifespan is no more than two years."
She paused and stopped in front of the door.
She squinted her eyes and smiled innocently and sweetly, "The game is over, you have passed the level."
The moment the door opened, snow-white light shone on An Jue's face. The dazzling light made her frown slightly. Fortunately, Ares lowered the brightness of the lenses, which made An Jue's eyes feel better.
From the perspective of a bystander, An Ju shouldn't have any feelings about this.
The young man said: "After the game is over, you can have a life like that. Miss An Jue doesn't have to think too much."
To An Xun or the person behind the scenes, this is just a game with the earth as the home ground and all humans as NPCs, in order to seize control.
"That's okay too."
The game pod borrowed from Interstellar Games can simulate any real-life experience.
An Ju: "...I forgot to play the game, what do you mean?"
"So, it's better to save the lives of the two of them and board the rocket. At least that way, you can finally have a chance to meet the people behind the scenes, right?" An Xun's lips curled up slightly, with a dazzling sarcasm in the curve of his mouth.
"Ms. An Jue has no position to blame me for my cold-bloodedness and indifference. I know that at the last moment when you boarded the rocket, you were hesitating, choosing between the safety of mankind and wanting to see the person behind the scenes."
Later, when the princess died, she wondered whether she had suffered retribution for her previous cold-bloodedness. After causing others to lose their important people, she finally lost her one and only.
"Little tea."
"Then why not just turn it into a rocket and take humans to the space station?" The young man's eyes flashed with a hint of ridicule, "In this way, more people will be brought, and those people will not have to die, right?"
However, after meeting the princess, these things gradually turned into loyalty, sincerity, and enthusiasm for the princess alone.
She turned her head and recalled the "forgotten memory" that the girl said in her mind.
[Brother, this is so wrong!] Ares said.
But for the humans who actually live here, it is a cruel and bloody disaster.
To those behind the scenes, and to An Xun.
"Originally, you should have defeated me in the end, but -" the princess leaned close to her ear and whispered with red lips: "How could I bear to attack you."
The square, snow-white space was surrounded by mirrors, reflecting the girl sitting on the cold chair in the center of the room.
A game without a name.
Her eyes were paying attention to all the movements around her, and she was extremely alert.
Princess: "...You are too confident, Xiaojie, let's wait and see."
"Remember it quickly, Xiaoji~" the girl said: "Remember the real story before we started this game."
Since this guy intends to guide himself, let's go and see what the so-called person behind the scenes is.
An Jue knew that he could not relax his vigilance. All the structures of this long passage seemed to be artificially controlled - no! In other words, the space station itself was like a consciousness like a living thing, and he and An Xun were in it.
in the body!
She thought that she would suffer more attacks in the future, but she never thought that after being separated from An Xun, the passage in front of her would actually return to its original state.
"Mechanical life forms, didn't you say that before?" An teased: "A race that defies nature in the universe."
The sound of sizzling electricity came from the walls on both sides, and finally, a tall white mechanical door appeared in An Ju's field of vision.
"I know." An Jue looked at the floor beside him. An Xun was still there just a moment ago, but disappeared in the blink of an eye. He didn't know where the person behind the scenes took the young man.
"It's not pleasant," An teased: "I still like the calm days before the game officially starts."
After the rocket left the earth, it looked back again at the small blue planet below.
Her slightly curly hair is spread over her shoulders. She wears a gorgeous and complicated long dress inlaid with exquisite jewelry. She wears white lace gloves on her hands and puts them on her clasped thighs. She sits in a quiet and well-behaved posture, like a beautiful doll.
.
"Ares has no rocket data. Our world no longer needs that kind of propeller to leave the planet and fly in the universe," An said: "It can indeed be directly restructured into a large spacecraft to carry humans to the space station, but that would be very expensive for Ares.
energy, military
All the Atace energy in the car has been absorbed. Without the crystal core of the zombies, Ares' reorganized spaceship will consume all its energy the moment it leaves the atmosphere and turn into an ordinary mobile phone. In this way,
Everyone will die, falling from the sky, including you and me."
"Indeed, it's not interesting at all in the end." The girl shrugged, "Forget it, let's go back to the real world."
An nodded: "Of course, Ares doesn't need air. You can think of it as a self-aware mechanical product."
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The so-called real story.
An's eyes darkened slightly, becoming a bit serious and serious.
An Xun's eyes moved from the window back to the girl's face, their eyes met, and he saw a little coldness and seriousness in the other person's eyes.
The young man's handsome and fair face was indifferent and calm, but after noticing An Jie's expression, he suddenly curled his lips and revealed a rather playful smile, "Why are you suddenly interested in the name of the game?"
*
The rocket separated the spacecraft, and the small space capsule carrying the two people entered the predetermined orbit.
An Jue: "Then what's the point of this game?"
An Jue hasn't had this feeling of being seen through for a long time.
"How to exit the game?" An asked.
"I see," An Xun chuckled, "Did you enjoy this game?"
"The visit of humans has brought them machines, which have attached themselves to human machines and parasitized life consciousness into the neurons of human brains. They have a longer lifespan than those mineral stones brought to them. They are almost synchronized with humans, and humans have developed
Aket energy can satisfy the daily activities of mechanical parasitic life forms, so the empire signed a contract with them."
"Forget about resentment, I have no qualifications and no position. Your choice is right. Instead, I should thank you, An Xun. It is true as you said, the truth is more important than human beings. My nature is so ruthless and unjust.
," An Jie smiled self-deprecatingly: "There are too many things in my life that I should be guilty of, so retribution has come. Death is a gift. Now I finally understand that I have to live to be able to keep losing.
I will always blame myself in the shadow of the important person.”
She was a little anxious, but she knew rationally that she had to calm down.
An Jue: "...Then why are you throwing everything out now? Did I promise to defeat you?"
"I'll be the boss!" An teased.
"So, the memory of your death was actually modified and given to me in order to serve as my game background?" An Jue's face darkened.
Later, with Ares, there was one more guy who treated me sincerely.
I was just an unexpected traveler who got caught up in this brutal storm.
The princess smiled and said: "Let me do it."
She suddenly snapped her fingers, and the white mirror space suddenly seemed to be filled with ripples, gradually becoming transparent in An Jue's field of vision.
Drowsiness came next, and An Jue frowned slightly, and suddenly the princess's sweet voice came to his ears -
"Open your eyes again, and we will meet in the real world, Xiaoyu."
Good night!~~
Chapter completed!